100 Years Ago

Jan. 25, 1923 — Girls’ basketball

The girls have been practicing regularly every night this week for their game at Madras next Friday night, which also marks the opening of the regular basketball schedule. Frances Newbold, Winifred Munz, Getrude and Mae Wallenburg, Ima Peterson, Goldie Reynolds, Ida Towne, Dorothy Houk, Margaret Beaver and Louise Hosch are showing up well as candidates for the girls’ first team. This is the first year that Redmond has been represented by a “Girls quintet,” but we believe that they will perform feats equal those of the boys.

75 Years Ago

Jan. 25, 1948 — Classes to start in home nursing, mother, baby care

Courses in “Home Nursing” and “Mother and Baby Care,” sponsored by the American Red Cross, will be held in Redmond in February, announces Mrs. Harry Sly.

Classes will start the first week in February and last for three weeks. Home nursing, which deals with recognition and care or illness within the home, has been offered here previously, but mother and baby care is a new course. Expectant mothers, mothers of young children and fathers may register, it being suggested that couples enroll.

Lessons may be afternoon or evening, and for both courses there will be two two-hour lessons each week for three weeks. Miss Jean Anderson, registered nurse from San Francisco, will be instructor. Mrs. Lillian Millsap and Mrs. Walter J. Emard of Bend are organizing classes throughout Deschutes county.

Those interested in signing up for either course may call Mrs. Sly, 43, mornings, by February 1.

50 Years Ago

Jan. 24, 1973 — Disaster board contemplates buying new-style ambulance

“Call the Modulance” may be the cry in cases of emergencies in the Redmond area if all goes as planned by the Redmond Disaster Board.

Paul McCoy reports that a disaster board committee will meet Thursday evening to write specifications for the new-style ambulance similar to the one owned by LaPine.

Unlike the passe Cadillac which the board hopes to phase out, the proposed emergency vehicle would consist of a large well-equipped box mounted on a pickup chassis camper fashion. McCoy says the unit would provide more sophisticated equipment and more room for better patient care. It would carry two technicians, a half ton of equipment and up to five patients.

Cost of the new vehicle would be paid out of fees collected for transporting patients. Estimates cannot be formulated until specifications have been written.

McCoy pointed out that the board usually replaces its ambulances every two to three years, but has held the Cadillac since 1969. Just over a year ago the board acquired an additional emergency vehicle — a van style which cost about $14,000.

25 Years Ago

Jan. 28, 1998 — New airline eyes Redmond

SkyWest Airlines, a Utah-based air carrier, has contacted the City of Redmond with hopes of gaining a contract to handle United Express’s flights in the region.

Redmond airport Manager Carrie Novick said Tuesday the company wants to pick up the contract Mesa Airlines recently lost. Mesa flew nine times a day for United Express, a United Airlines subsidiary.

No formal agreement has been reached between SkyWest and the city.

SkyWest flies to 46 cities in 12 Western states, according to its web page. It also operates under agreements with Delta Airlines and Continental Airlines.

Novick is excited about those connections because they could possibly mean Central Oregon travelers could enjoy more travel options under SkyWest.

SkyWest posted $72 million in total revenues in 1997.